History Minor

Minor - History (Minor)

College Humanities & Sciences

Catalog Year: 2016-2017

Degree Specific Credits: 20

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Note: A minimum of 20 credits in History are required of which 6 credits must be in American (AM) History, 6 must be in European (EU) History, and 6 in World (WRLD) History (Asian, Islamic, African, Latin American or international). History minors must complete at least 9 upper-division credits.


Introductory History Courses

Rule: Must complete 2 of the following courses

Note: These courses count toward the American, World, and European electives.
AP Policy: Those students scoring a "5" on either the American History or European History AP exam are excused from this requirement. These students earn credit toward graduation but do not earn credit toward the history degree.

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Show Description HSTA 101H - American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 102H - American History II
(AM) Offered spring. A comprehensive introductory history of the U.S. since 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 103H - Honors American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary, and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 104H - Honors American History II
(AM) Offered spring. Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of the U. S. since 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 101H - Western Civilization I
(EU) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1648. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 102H - Western Civilization II
(EU) Offered spring. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from 1648 to the present. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTR 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 103H - Honors Western Civilization I
(EU) Offered autumn.  Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1648. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 104H - Honors Western Civilization II
(EU) Offered spring. Limited enrollment by consent of instructor only. A comprehensive introductory history of western civilization from 1648 to the present. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTR 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 8 Total Credits Required

American History Electives

Rule: Must choose 6 credits from the following

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Show Description AAST 141H - Black: Africa to Hip-Hop
Offered autumn. Same as HIST 141H. This course introduces students to the primary questions, themes, and approaches to African-American Studies. In addition to examining key historical periods such as Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era, students will encounter Hip-Hop, African-American film, African-American religion, and contemporary identity politics. This course concludes by discussing the reasons for and new directions in African-American studies, including diaspora studies, Pan-Africanism, and post-colonial studies. Overall students will gain new insight into the social, cultural, political, and intellectual, experiences of a diverse people and into the history and contemporary experience of the United States.
3 Credits
Show Description AAST 208H - Discovering Africa
Offered intermittently. Same as HIST 208H. Interdisciplinary study of the history of pre-colonial Africa, focusing on social, economic, political and cultural institutions and traditions including the wealth, diversity and complexity of ancient and classical African civilizations and cultures.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 101H - American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 102H - American History II
(AM) Offered spring. A comprehensive introductory history of the U.S. since 1877. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 103H - Honors American History I
(AM) Offered autumn.  Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of Colonial, Revolutionary, and 19th century America, to 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 104H - Honors American History II
(AM) Offered spring. Enrollment by consent of instructor. A comprehensive introductory history of the U. S. since 1877. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTA 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTA 191 - Special Topics
(R-6) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description HSTA 255 - Montana History
(AM) Offered autumn.  An introductory and interpretive history from Lewis and Clark to 2000.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 262 - Abolitionism
(AM) Same as AAS 262. Interdisciplinary, historical perspective on early 19th century movement to abolish slavery and racial discrimination in the United States.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 291 - Special Topics
(R-12) (AM) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTA 311 - Early America
(AM) Emphasis changes from year to year. Can touch upon the political economy of Puritanism, through gender and family to the preconditions for the American Revolution.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 315 - Early American Republic
(AM) Democracy, nationalism and sectionalism, the War of 1812, the second party system, social order and disorder, the capitalist revolution.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 316 - American Civil War Era
(AM) Civil War and Reconstruction; the triumph of the industrialist and capitalist ethic.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 320 - Birth of Modern US
(AM) The history of the U.S. from 1877 to 1920 is largely the story of Americans responding to profound social, cultural and economic change.  In an effort to bring order to their changing world, Americans created new institutions, retooled their ideologies, and improved the nation's infrastructure.  The order they created is, in modified form, still with us today.  Students will explore the myriad changes that transformed the United States during this period and study the social, political, and cultural struggles that shaped the emergence of Modern America.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 321 - America in Crisis
(AM) This era in U.S. history was marked by a series of crises: the contested transition to modernity during the 1920s, the Great Depression, and World War II and its aftermath. This course will explore how Americans responded to these crises, why they responded to them the way they did, and how their responses altered the society in which they lived.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 322 - American History: WWII to Pres
(AM) The Cold War and its consequences, the civil rights revolution, affluence and anxiety, counter-culture, political radicalism, feminism, the Nixon years, Watergate and after.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 323 - U.S. in the 1950s
(AM) Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1950s.  Particular emphasis is placed on cultural history. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 324 - U.S. in the 1960s
(AM) Examines the political, social, cultural, intellectual developments of America in the 1960s. Topics include the Great Society, political radicalism, the counter culture, black radicalism, and Vietnam. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 333 - Key Events in American Militar
(R-6) (AM) The French and Indian Wars to Vietnam and beyond; chronological and topical accounts.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 335 - Movie America
(AM) This course examines major topics and themes in United States history from the early twentieth century to the present using movies as primary sources.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 342H - Afr Amer Hist to 1865
(AM) Offered intermittently. Same as AAS 342H. Survey of the African American experience from the African background to the end of the Civil War.  Focus on Black American quest for the American Dream, and how Blacks attempted to deal with the challenges of enslavement and racism.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 343H - Afr Amer Hist Since 1865
(AM) Same as AAS 343H.  Study of the African American experience since the Civil War. Change and continuity in the African American experience, the fight against Jim Crow, the struggle for civil rights, and post-civil rights economic, political, social and cultural developments and challenges.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 347 - Voodoo, Muslim, Church
(AM) The African American religious experience encompasses Islam, Christianity, Santeria, voodoo, and many others. In this course, students will examine the history of religious expression within the African-American community from the colonial era through the twentieth century. Central to the course question, "How did religion shape the experience of the African-American community?" Students will also examine the ways in which religious practice influenced social, political, and cultural changes in American history.  Same as AAS 347.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 354X - Ind MT Since Reserv Era
(AM) Offered autumn odd-numbered years.  Same as ANTH 324X and NAS 324X.  Examination of the history of Montana Indians since the establishment of the reservations, contemporary conditions, and issues among both reservation and non-reservation Indian communities in the state.  Special attention given to social and economic conditions, treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, and legal issues.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 358 - Images of the Amer West
(AM) Offered even-numbered years.  The roles that artists, artistic works and illustrations, and symbolic images have played in the history of the American West.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 361 - The American South
(AM) Social history of the American South with particular attention to race, class, and gender.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 370H - Wmn Amer Colonial to Civil War
Offered autumn.  Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. womens history to 1865. Same as WGS 370H.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 371H - Wmn Amer Civil War to Present
Offered spring. Interpretive overview of major themes and events in U.S. women’s history from 1865 to the present. Same as WGS 371.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 372 - The American Revolution
(AM) Delving into the history of the early modern Atlantic world, this course examines the transnational ramifications of the American Revolution. Specifically, it examines the Revolution’s economic and ideological origins, European involvement in the Revolutionary War, as well as the Revolution’s impact on African American slavery and the slave trade. We will also consider its implications for Haitian and Latin American independence. And finally, we will discuss the creation of the U.S. Constitution, America’s struggle for political sovereignty, and the Revolution’s impact on Native Americans, women and families, and conceptions of American identity during the Early National period.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 380 - AmericanConstitutional History
(AM) An examination of major issues in the American constitutional past. Topics include the creation of the U.S. Constitution and the problem of ?original intent,? courts and judicial review, slavery and anti-slavery, the bill o frights, industrial capitalism and the welfare state, and majority rule and minority rights in American democracy.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 382H - History of American Law
(AM) Issues in the social history of law from the colonial period to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 385 - Families & Children in America
(AM) Historical overview of families and children in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Topics include changing patterns of family life, the evolution of attitudes toward children and youth, the relationship between the American family and the nation-state, and debates over "family values" from the nation's founding to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTA 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTA 491 - Special topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTA 494 - Seminar
(R-6) Consent of instructor.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description HSTR 364 - Environmental History
(AM) Prereq., lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. A history of the human-nature interaction in the United States.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 367 - 19th Cent Amer West
(AM) Euro-American movement and conflict in the nineteenth century trans-Mississippi west.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 369 - 20th Cent Amer West
(AM) The contemporary trans-Mississippi West.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 464 - Hist Amer Indian Affrs to 1776
Offered Autumn. Same as HIST 464. A study of American Indian relations with Europeans and the United States from first contact to 1776.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 465 - Hist Amer Indian Affrs 10 Cent
Offered Spring. Same as HIST 465. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nations in the nineteenth century.
3 Credits
Show Description NASX 466 - Hist of Indian Affrs from 1890
Offered Autumn. Same as HIST 466. A study of tribal encounters and adjustments to the American nation from 1890.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required

World History Electives

Rule: Must choose 6 credits from the following

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Show Description ANTY 141H - The Silk Road
Offered autumn and spring. Introduction to the study of the human communities, cultures, and economies in Central and Southwest Asia along the ancient four thousand mile-long Silk Road.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 191 - Special Topics
(R-6) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 6 Credits
Show Description HSTR 230H - Colonial Latin America
(WRLD) Offered autumn. Latin America from conquest by Spain and Portugal to wars for independence. Focus on social relations, imperial and local politics, hegemony, resistance, and change.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 231H - Modern Latin America
(WRLD) Offered spring. Latin America from wars of independence to the present. Focus on social relations, development models, politics, and popular movements.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 240 - East Asian Civilizations
(WRLD) An interdisciplinary, pluralist, and exploratory introduction to civilizations of East Asia. Primary focus on China, Japan, and Korea, the relations among them and their patterns of interaction with the outside world in pre-modern and modern periods.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 241H - Central Asian Cult & Civ
(WRLD) Same as ANTY 241H. Introduction to Central Asia's history, culture and ways of thinking. Focus on the political and social organization of Central Asia and cultural changes as expressed in art and interactions with China, India and the Middle East.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 262H - Islamic Civil: Classical Age
(WRLD) A concise history of the Islamic world from the 6th century to the fall of the Abbasid Empire in the 13th century, focusing primarily on the teachings of Islam and the causes for the rapid expansion of the Islamic empire.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 264 - Islamic Civ: Modrn Era
(WRLD) History of the Islamic world and particularly the Persian, Arabic, and Turkish speaking lands between 1453 and 1952.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 272E - Terrorism:Viol Mod Wrld
(WRLD) The rise and spread of terrorism in the modern world, from the French Revolution to the present.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 291 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 334 - Latin America: Reform and Revo
(WRLD) Different ideologies and projects in Latin America aimed at gradual or radical transformation of political systems and/or socio-economic relations. From the Haitian Revolution to the Bolivarian vision of Hugo Chavez.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 335 - Lat Am Workers & Labor
(WRLD) Study of the experiences and agency of diverse working people in Latin America. Influence of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and generation on working class identity and movements. Labor organizations and politics in historic context.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 392 - Independent Study
(R-12)
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 435 - Lat Am Human Rgts & Memory
(WRLD) The legacy of state violence and ongoing struggles for truth and justice in select Latin American case studies. Different uses of memory and narration in bearing witness to social and political conflict and human rights violations. 
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 459 - Artistic Trad Cent & SW Asia
(WRLD) Analysis of the study of human artistic creativity and scientific innovations of various cultures in Central and Southwest Asia since ancient times.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 491 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 492 - Independent Study
(R-12) Prereq., consent of instr.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description PSCI 422 - Revolution & Reform in China
Offered autumn. A history of the rise and fall of the Maoist regime and the complicated impact of the epochal post Mao reform movement.
3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C 6 Total Credits Required

European History Electives

Rule: Must choose 6 credits from the following

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Show Description HSTR 101H - Western Civilization I
(EU) Offered autumn.  A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1648. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both 101H and 103H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 102H - Western Civilization II
(EU) Offered spring. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from 1648 to the present. Lecture-discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTR 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 103H - Honors Western Civilization I
(EU) Offered autumn.  Limited enrollment by consent of instr. only. A comprehensive, introductory history of western civilization from classical antiquity to 1648. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both 103H and 101H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 104H - Honors Western Civilization II
(EU) Offered spring. Limited enrollment by consent of instructor only. A comprehensive introductory history of western civilization from 1648 to the present. Lecture-honors discussion. Credit not allowed for both HSTR 102H and 104H.
4 Credits
Show Description HSTR 301X - Ancient Greek Social History
(EU) Offered intermittently. Various aspects of personal, social, and political life of classical times in Greece. Primary readings in various ancient authors supplemented by some audio-visual or other informational presentations.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 302 - Ancient Greece
(EU) Offered intermittently. Same as MCLG 301H. Greek history from the earliest times through the Macedonian ascendancy, based on the writings of the Greek historians. Cannot receive credit for both HSTR 302 and MCLG 301H.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 312 - Age of Absolut 1648-1789
(EU) The political, economic, intellectual, and social development of Europe 1648-1789.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 320 - Europ Social & Intellect Hist
(EU) The influence of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Ages, and the Enlightenment on early modern history.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 323 - Europ Social & Intellect Hist:
(EU) Romanticism, Realism, and the Avant-Garde against the historical background of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 348 - Britain 1485-1688
(EU) Social, political, religious, and intellectual history of the British peoples during the tumultuous period of reformation, exploration, constitutional crisis, and civil war.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 349 - Britain from Rev - Reform 1688
(EU) The social, political, cultural, and intellectual consequences of British expansion, financial and industrial revolutions, and revolutionary movements.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 352 - France Revol 1789-1848
(EU) Political, economic, and social upheaval and development.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 353 - Modern France
(EU) Political, economic and social development.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 354 - Italy: 1300-1800
(EU) The emergence of the Italian states with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 355 - Italy: 1800-Present
(EU) The emergence of a united Italy, the triumph of fascism and contemporary Italian society.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 357 - Russia to 1881
(EU) Emphasis on the autocratic political tradition, Westernization, and territorial expansion.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 358 - Russia Since 1881
(EU) Emphasis on modernization and the revolutionary movement; the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalinist era; the decline of Soviet system.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 361 - Germ:Augsburg-Bismarck
(EU) Political, economic and social development of the states of the Holy Roman Empire from 1555-1866.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 363 - Eastern Europe
(EU) Main currents in the history of Eastern Europe from earliest times to the present. Focus on the lands of Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, and the Balkan region.
3 Credits
Show Description HSTR 391 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 392 - Independent Study
(R-12)
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 491 - Special Topics
(R-12) Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
1 To 12 Credits
Show Description HSTR 492 - Independent Study
(R-12) Prereq., consent of instr.
1 To 12 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required